Project Grant DESC0019866

Eden Geopower Inc. was awarded a $3,271,671 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program. The three-year award will support Eden Geopower's development of an electro-hydraulic fracturing technology for enhanced geothermal systems. Their proposed concept involves using electric currents to selectively increase permeability in targeted fractures. This is intended to stimulate a larger reservoir volume without reducing fluid...

This Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science provided $249,966 to Global Technologies Corp of Atlanta, GA from June 2021 through March 2022. The grant supported development of seismic AI technology for real-time analysis of drilling and fracking operations under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The Office of Science aims to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economics through scientific discoveries and...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $5,500,231 Cooperative Agreement to Clemson University for the design, development, prototyping, and validation of a novel AI-enabled, photoacoustic imaging (PAI) based well-logging tool. The project aims to create a high-fidelity, comprehensive inspection tool compatible with current conveyance methods to provide a full, continuous 3D tomograph of the wellbore (casing, cement, and part of the formation)...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $650,000 over a 3-year period to the University of Southern California to develop an AI model that can better understand fault dynamics and earthquake hazards in heavily faulted geologic basins. The project builds a multiphysics fault network model to discover reduced-order governing equations for the evolution of stress in complex fault systems, using the Southern Permian Basin in the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $299,809 to the University of Memphis to investigate how faults respond to rapid changes in stress in geothermal reservoirs. The project aims to deploy seismometers, analyze earthquake data using machine learning, and develop computational models to understand the link between operational changes and induced seismic activity. The researchers will examine this phenomenon at the Blue Mountain...

Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corp. (IFOS) received a $199,955 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a high-resolution fiber-optic sensing system for geothermal fracture imaging. The system will utilize fiber optic sensor technologies to map subsurface fractures for geothermal energy exploration and development. Mapping fractures is important for locating geothermal reservoirs and managing...

The $255,963 National Science Foundation grant to Teverra LLC will support the development of an innovative downhole tool for direct measurement of in-situ rock stresses in deep well environments. Funded through the NSF Engineering Directorate's $47.041 million CFDA program, the Phase I project aims to design, model, and prepare prototypes for a modular stress measurement tool applicable to vertical, deviated, and horizontal wells. Key objectives include analytical and numerical solutions to...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded Colorado School of Mines $2,197,721 under the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) federal grant program on May 5, 2023 to complete the project by May 4, 2026. The award will support integrating reservoir stimulation and sensing technology to enhance in-situ mining and carbon mineralization through disruptive electro-hydraulic fracturing and distributed fiber-optic sensing....

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $299,539 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop advanced machine learning models and algorithms to study the intricate dynamics of earthquakes. The key objectives are to uncover precursory signals that may precede major seismic events, enhance earthquake forecasting capabilities, and create open-source tools accessible to researchers and practitioners worldwide. The...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a program under the Department of Energy (CFDA 81.135 - Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy), provides $274,995 to Louisiana Tech University to advance horizontal directional drilling (HDD) capabilities for rapidly undergrounding electrical utilities. The project aims to reduce borehole creation costs by 50% through transformational research in two areas: 1) subsurface sensing and tracking, and 2)...